# Measurements of total production cross sections for π++ C, π++Al, K++ C, and K++Al at 60 GeV/c and π++ C and π++Al at 31 GeV/c

@article{Aduszkiewicz2018MeasurementsOT,
title={Measurements of total production cross sections for $\pi$++ C, $\pi$++Al, K++ C, and K++Al at 60 GeV/c and $\pi$++ C and $\pi$++Al at 31 GeV/c},
author={A. Aduszkiewicz and E. Andronov and T. Anti'ci'c and N. Antoniou and B. Baatar and M. Baszczyk and S. Bhosale and A. Blondel and M. Bogomilov and A. Brandin and A. Bravar and W. Bryli'nski and J. Brzychczyk and S. Bunyatov and O. Busygina and A. Bzdak and S. Cao and H.Cherif and P.Christakoglou and M. 'Cirkovi'c and T.Czopowicz and A. Damyanova and A. Datta and N. Davis and M. Deveaux and F. Diakonos and P. V. Doetinchem and W. Dominik and P. Dorosz and J. Dumarchez and R. Engel and G. Feofilov and L. Fields and Z. Fodor and M. Friend and A. Garibov and M. Ga'zdzicki and O. Golosov and M. Golubeva and K. Grebieszkow and F. Guber and A. Haesler and T. Hasegawa and A. Herv'e and S. Igolkin and S. Ilieva and A. Ivashkin and S. Johnson and K. Kadija and A. Kapoyannis and E. Kaptur and N. Kargin and E. Kashirin and M. Kielbowicz and V. Kireyeu and V. Klochkov and T. Kobayashi and V. Kolesnikov and D. Kolev and A. Korzenev and V. Kovalenko and K. Kowalik and S. Kowalski and M. Koziel and A. Krasnoperov and W. Kucewicz and M. Kuich and A. Kurepin and D. Larsen and A. L'aszl'o and T. Lazareva and M. Lewicki and K. Lojek and B. Lysakowski and V. Lyubushkin and M. Ma'ckowiak-Pawlowska and Z. Majka and B. Maksiak and A. Malakhov and D. Mani'c and A. Marchionni and A. Marcinek and A. Marino and K. M{\'a}rton and H. Mathes and T. Matulewicz and V. Matveev and G. Melkumov and A. Merzlaya and B. Messerly and L. Mik and G. Mills and S. Morozov and S. Mr'owczy'nski and Y. Nagai and T. Nakadaira and M. Naskrket and V. Ozvenchuk and A. Panagiotou and V. Paolone and M. Pavin and O. Petukhov and R. Planeta and P. Podlaski and B. Popov and M. Posiadała and S. Puławski and J. Puzovi'c and W. Rauch and M. Ravonel and R. Renfordt and E. Richter-Wkas and D.Rohrich and E. Rondio and M. Roth and B. Rumberger and A. Rustamov and M. Rybczynski and A. Rybicki and A. Sadovsky and K. Sakashita and K. Schmidt and T. Sekiguchi and I. Selyuzhenkov and A. Seryakov and P. Seyboth and A. Shukla and M. Slodkowski and A. Snoch and P. Staszel and G. Stefanek and J. Stepaniak and M. Strikhanov and H. Strobele and T. vSuvsa and M. Tada and A. Taranenko and A. Tefelska and D. Tefelski and V. Tereshchenko and A. Toia and R. Tsenov and L. Turko and R. Ulrich and M. Unger and F. Valiev and M. Vassiliou and D. Veberivc and V. Vechernin and M. Walewski and A. Wickremasinghe and Z. Włodarczyk and A. Wojtaszek-Szwar{\'c} and O. Wyszy'nski and K. Yarritu and L. Zambelli and E. Zimmerman and R. Zwaska},
journal={Physical Review D},
year={2018},
volume={98},
pages={052001}
}
This paper presents several measurements of total production cross sections and total inelastic cross sections for the following reactions: π++C, π++Al, K++C, K++Al at 60  GeV/c, π++C and π++Al at 31  GeV/c. The measurements were made using the NA61/SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). Comparisons with previous measurements are given and good agreement is seen. These interaction cross sections measurements are a key ingredient for… Expand
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